Cloudify review
A flexible orchestration platform for teams managing complex multi-cloud and edge environments.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Cloudify is an open-source orchestration platform for modeling, deploying, and operating applications and infrastructure across public cloud, private infrastructure, and edge environments. It is aimed at teams coordinating more than standalone infrastructure provisioning, with YAML blueprints based on TOSCA, deployment and lifecycle workflows, configuration-drift detection and remediation, monitoring, logging, access control, and plugin-based extensibility. Operations are available through a management console, CLI, and REST API, with support for web, Linux, API, and self-hosted use.
The plan structure gives teams a clear entry point. Community is a free version with no time limit, does not require a license, and is available as an RPM, OpenStack image, or Docker container. Premium adds subscription-based licensing, hosted and self-managed deployment options, and a free 60-day trial. The published plan details support evaluating the platform through Community or the Premium trial, while Premium is positioned for organizations that need the additional deployment and licensing model. Cloudify was acquired by Dell Technologies.
Its strongest fit is orchestration across varied environments and tools. Cloudify integrates with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Jenkins, and supports policy as code, resource import, both state-management approaches, self-hosted execution, and drift detection. That breadth is useful for multi-cloud and edge teams building repeatable lifecycle processes. Teams seeking a narrower, standard Terraform-style IaC workflow may find the TOSCA-based configuration and wider orchestration model less direct. Cloudify is therefore suited to complex infrastructure services and application operations, but may be more platform than needed for straightforward provisioning.
Cloudify pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free Community version with no time limit and no license requirement
- Coordinates Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud-provider integrations
- Supports drift remediation, workflows, APIs, plugins, and multi-cloud orchestration
- Where it doesn't
- Its TOSCA/YAML model is less direct for standard Terraform-style IaC
- Premium uses subscription-based licensing or purchase-order purchasing
- The broad orchestration model may exceed narrow infrastructure provisioning needs
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